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Bashing-omJanC: Goats have been under consideration .. does that also entail a milk pail ?00:02
JanConly after you get them pregnant00:04
OerHeksŞiş Kebab :-D00:04
Bashing-omNot me !!00:05
OerHekshow about putting an Rpi on that machine?00:06
Bashing-omOerHeks: Rpi ?00:07
OerHeksraspberry pi00:07
Bashing-omWell that Rpi would ease the boredom of going round and round !00:16
daftykinshere's Bashing-om's place in the future - https://vine.co/v/inOMT1AIT9201:17
Bashing-omHide it ! Do not let my Wife see !!01:23
daftykins>:D01:28
Bashing-omI am closing down for the evening, yall have fun without me :)02:26
ducassemorning, all06:23
BluesKajHiyas all11:28
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BluesKajhey EriC^^13:45
EriC^^hey BluesKaj13:45
pauljwnow i remember why i don't help these morons14:15
BluesKajyeah I saw that :-)14:16
pauljw:)14:16
BluesKajsometimes I wonder why some users even bother asking when they constantly object to our suggestions because they can't be bothered to tell us their preferences14:20
pauljwi don't get it either.  the guy's so brilliant that he's not using a gui, why can't he figure out how to upgrade?14:22
BluesKajyeah, he's got his update manager set to LTS14:25
BluesKajpersonally i find the update manager a pita ...don't need it setting a default for me14:29
pauljwi don't see why he doesn't just do a fresh install on his new system that has nothing on it yet.  again, that's just my uneducated opinion.14:29
BluesKajI wasn't aware of his whole situation, that he was ssh'd into remote pc14:31
pauljwoh, he's just now mentioning that...  he's an ass.14:32
pauljwhe's on my ignore list.  so i'm not seeing anything he's saying.  i'll be back later, have to jump in the shower and run a bunch of errands...  have fun!!14:34
BluesKajPaulW2U:  ok , later14:35
daftykins\o14:44
BluesKajhey daftykins15:11
daftykinshow goes it?15:11
BluesKajgood, just ordered the rpi 3 cankit ...looking forward some kit fun15:13
BluesKajto15:13
daftykinsooh nice15:15
BluesKajhttps://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-3-ultimate-kit.html15:15
daftykinsi'm attacking my old core 2 quad desktop today, it's giving me some annoying hassle that might end up requiring a new motherboard15:15
daftykinswow that's a lot of bits!15:15
BluesKajdual core is what I'm using here, old amd 5200+15:18
BluesKajwas going to oder the 64 bit T3 with more memory etc , but it's too much money considering what i'm going to use it for16:16
daftykinsT3?16:43
daftykinswow i've done a full disassemble and rebuild of my old machine - it's working now16:44
BluesKajnice daftykins ;-016:45
BluesKajoops  :-)16:45
daftykins:D16:47
daftykinsit might still misbehave if it's off the mains for an hour16:47
coenraadHello everybody,from a cozy bar in front of a fireplace at a wintery Debconf Cape Town16:53
nacccoenraad: did you see ubottu's hint in #ubuntu?16:53
daftykinsi hope your drinks are open source16:56
naccheh16:56
coenraadEverything is open source if there's enough alcohol involved :-p16:58
coenraadin fact, "free software" if you will16:58
coenraadSo I see we're plotting a "peaceful takeover" of Microsoft...16:58
coenraadnacc: yes thanks16:59
daftykinsi'll take that to be referring to bug #117:00
ubot5bug 1 in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team "Microsoft has a majority market share" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/117:00
EriC^^lol17:02
daftykinshey EriC^^ o/ how goes sir?17:03
EriC^^:D17:03
EriC^^hey daftykins17:03
EriC^^good thanks you?17:03
daftykinsyep much the same :) just done a full rebuild of my old core 2 quad as it was misbehaving17:03
EriC^^nice17:03
daftykinsthought i was going to have to spend £60 on a motherboard off ebay!17:04
EriC^^hehe17:04
coenraad:-D He's been working on this for a while....... good going! Sigh..... we're all on the same team aren't we... I stumbled across Bill Gates' "open letter to the hobbyist computer community" in the Altair days while waiting in a library the other day... interesting progression from there to where Microsoft is today, but you can see the pain that caused Microsoft there already17:05
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/zd7g9i682g6izyk/AAC7AcXwqim9XwkH7q9_pIGCa?dl=017:05
daftykinsshe's a golden oldie17:05
coenraadMr. Gates' gripe was that there's no good software - and his reasoning was that nobody was willing to pay for software...17:05
daftykinscoenraad: no i don't tend to go in for the whole chip on my shoulder about OSs rubbish myself17:06
daftykinsback shortly17:06
coenraad... so he proceeded to create a whole ecosystem making software attractive and worth paying for.... yet.... I have the same pain that he had so long ago... TODAY!!!!17:07
coenraadIn fact... software arguably sucks even more today17:07
coenraadSo this is my pain.17:07
coenraadAnd it's been sucking progressively more over the last 10 years... getting better in some ways but just generally sucking more, especially to newcomers. I have a small stroke every time I contemplate the route of a line of code takes to the CPU and back.17:09
coenraadIt will take a real visionary, charismatic, rich, influential, respected all-rounder with a lot of patience, dedication and humility to make a change in the way software works today... I honestly thought we'd have moved along much further, way beyond struggling with namespaces, syntax ... text... by now. I think in 10 years from now we'll look back at how people today are writing code the same way we look back at papyrus in ancient Egypt17:13
coenraadFor heaven's sake... I have how many gigaflops at my disposal and I'm bottlenecked by missing semi colons or misaligned tabs17:14
* coenraad *really*17:14
coenraad...How does this relate to Ubuntu... Well Ubuntu has some of the ingredients of liberating us from the kludges of technology...17:18
daftykinsnot really, everything is at the mercy of the humans who write it17:19
coenraadtrue17:19
coenraadalthough, we're all captives of our situation.. our situation shapes our imagination which in turn shapes our world...17:20
daftykinsi think you're thinking a bit too big to fit into the topic here :P17:20
coenraadPeaceful takeover of Microsoft?17:21
naccthat's not the topic here  :)17:22
daftykinsyou might want to type "/topic"17:22
coenraadLol17:23
coenraadI think most people's problem with Microsoft is that Microsoft has not issued any real road map... it's a complex issue, but everything is connected at some level...17:23
coenraadI'll get on topic -17:23
coenraadMicrosoft is pushing a hardware agenda:17:23
nacc... that's not ontopic still ...17:23
coenraadThey progressively slow down their software (just like apple) in order to promote an IT Support industry who promotes selling more and better hardware17:23
coenraadand this all drives the computing cycle17:24
tsimonq2coenraad: please keep on topic17:24
coenraadOkay, getting to the topic, bear with me17:24
nacccoenraad: you know this isn't a canonical channel, right? this is for volunteers who work on ubuntu (just like #ubuntu). And it's about Ubuntu. Not Windows.17:24
coenraadyes17:24
daftykinsi'm ignoring you now, you're a prime example of the #1 nutjobs freenode attracts17:24
tsimonq2daftykins: hey now, no need to insult17:25
coenraaddaftykins: please don't judge me prematurely... give me a moment - if you insist, I will rather do a blog post and share a link... but this relates very closely to Ubuntu. I have switched a lot of people and organisations from Windows to Ubuntu...17:26
tsimonq2coenraad: blog posts are good ;)17:26
nacccoenraad: it's taking a long time to get to the point... we're all educated Ubuntu users. tl;dr it for us17:26
coenraadtsimonq2: also time consuming, and it would be great to get some input before I write them... ?17:27
coenraadnacc: ok fair point, you're quite patient17:27
nacccoenraad: as of right now, it's a semi-rant about what microsoft is "doing" to the industry17:27
coenraadI'll try say it in a very short sentence - question is "Ubuntu in 10 years" and relates to this Canonical/MS venture17:30
naccnone of us are deciding the roadmap for Ubuntu in 10 years (afaict) :)17:31
coenraadThe main hurdle to me replacing Windows with Ubuntu, is "Libreoffice isn't similar enough to MS Office"17:31
coenraadAnd MS office doesn't run the same on Linux as it does on Windows17:32
naccthat seems like a libreoffice issue...17:32
coenraadYes - but it is holding back Ubuntu in a big way17:32
naccis it really? or is that your opinion?17:32
coenraadI don't even advertise and I get more than 10 calls a day from people who accidentally upgraded to Windows 10 whose computers are now unusable17:32
coenraadbecause Win10 is too slow17:32
nacchonestly, who uses a desktop anymore? OEM desktop vendors are dying, which is where office clients matter; otherwise it's all remote/cloud17:33
coenraadEasy solution is to put Ubuntu on there, which runs great on most of those systems17:33
nacc:)17:33
coenraadEveryone who uses a spreadsheet or wordprocessor uses a desktop17:33
coenraadso thats pretty much everyone who runs a business17:33
nacc... google would disagree17:33
naccas would microsoft, i think17:33
naccso what you said was "The main hurdle to me replacing Windows with Ubuntu, is "Libreoffice isn't similar enough to MS Office"", which to me makes it sounds like you want Ubuntu to be just like Windows. The point, to me, is rather that Ubuntu can be better/different than Windows.17:35
naccs/Windows/Microsoft garbage/17:35
coenraadNow, nothing would please me more than to go out and replace all Windows 10 machines with Ubuntu17:35
coenraadBut people are stuck in their ways and want MS Office - many people are in their 60's and don't want to learn new things17:35
coenraadthey just want to send email, do spreadsheets and wordprocessing17:35
coenraadand use the shortcuts they know17:35
coenraadand don't want to feel stupid for not being able to figure out how to do something they've been doing for 20 years17:35
coenraadnacc: exactly - emphasis on *can*17:35
naccso let them?17:35
coenraadnacc: the freedom to choose, not be dictated how to use17:35
coenraadnacc: not be dictated when to change and how and to what, but on your own time, or stay the same if you like without having to jump through hoops to do it17:36
nacccoenraad: yes, but you just said you want libreoffice to be like ms office. Which necessitates being bad like ms office.17:36
nacccoenraad: compatibility has its costs...17:37
daftykinsmight be best not to feed it, nacc17:37
* nacc is sorry if a 60-year old feels stupid, but i'm not sure how that's Ubuntu's fault.17:37
naccdaftykins: yeah, i might be done17:37
coenraadOptions: 1) Sell them faster hardware 2) Downgrade them to Windows 7 3) Really soften them up, and explain to them a good reason to learn a new office program... (which is tedious and time consuming) I would like an option 4) Install Ubuntu + MS office (or Libreoffice that has same shortcuts) and they can keep using their perfectly fine computer...17:37
nacccoenraad: talk to microsoft or the libre folks.17:38
coenraadSo as part of the Ubuntu on Windows, I think the Ubuntu partnership should push an agenda that goes both ways...17:39
coenraadWell sorry I mean Canonical17:39
nacccoenraad: fine, then talk to Canonical...17:39
nacccoenraad: this isn't a Canonical channel17:39
coenraadyes, I noticed... where is the best place to talk to the people at Canonical so that I can be sure to craft my message in a digestible format before I just piss people there off too? :-/17:40
* coenraad battery critical17:41
nacccoenraad: i assume you can find it on the canonical or ubuntu webpages, dunno17:41
ducassecoenraad: post to the devel-discuss mailing list?17:42
coenraadI love how code / development / ubuntu focused you guys are...17:43
tgm4883err, if you want MS office to run on linux, I'm not sure why you think talking to canonical is going to make that happen17:45
coenraadI just want to be able to help people extend the life of their computers and helping them not have to spend lots of money on support or admin17:45
coenraadCanonical seems to know diplomacy...17:45
coenraadSo we'll see17:46
tgm4883coenraad: so just spending money on training then17:46
tgm4883coenraad: also, not sure why you think canonical seems to know diplomacy17:47
tgm4883(one could argue the exact opposite)17:47
DArqueBishopMS Office for Linux isn't likely, but it's possible. After all, MS is porting SQL Server to Linux...20:49
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